Category: Legacy
Growing increasingly disturbed
- Online Journalists are ISPs? – FBI demanding retention of records by reporter Declan McCullagh under laws which apply to ISPs (not reporters)
- Aug 8:
The synopsis of Austin’s crime is linking to sites that contain information on building bombs.
Federal proscecutors argued that his political beliefs were the violent
overthrow of the government, or a revolution combined with information
on how to acheive it. Austin’s account and rebuttal of the case
(lots of comments) can be found on RaiseTheFist.com’s website.
Extrapolated within reason, this case lays the foundation requiring
political journalists to navigate a political minefield when reporting
terrorism acts and U.S. policies. For example, any site that has
information on weapons (e.g. – CNN’s article on the risks of building dirty bombs and the difficulty in acquiring material), combined with an acerbic or dissenting viewpoint of the government’s policies (e.g. – a CNN article on the U.S. helping Saddam in the 80s) could be grounds for proscecution. - Terror Law Nabs Common Criminals
“Within six months of passing the Patriot Act, the Justice Department was conducting seminars on how to stretch the new wiretapping provisions to extend them beyond terror cases,” said Dan Dodson, a spokesman for the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. “They say they want the Patriot Act to fight terrorism, then, within six months, they are teaching their people how to use it on ordinary citizens.”
Prosecutors aren’t apologizing.
- Sep 24: Hackers are ‘Terrorists’ Under Ashcroft’s New Act
- 9/27: U.S. Uses Terror Law to Pursue Crimes From Drugs to Swindling
- 6/3: For Jailed Immigrants, a Presumption of Guilt
Am I out of line in saying that America has been betrayed by her stewards, or does that make me a terrorist?
(yeah, I’m feeling much safer now)
Not only does the University of Bristol have The List on TTW WYSIWYG Editors, but they also have a nice list of Portals & Portal Frameworks
Ooh, maybe Sprint’s $15/mo isn’t so bad after all…
This is the kind of stuff that would be hilarious if err, well, this were a TV show and not the reality that we’re living in (the joke’s on us I guess):
Bush said he insulates himself from the “opinions” that seep into news coverage by getting his news from his own aides. He said he scans headlines, but rarely reads news stories. “I appreciate people’s opinions, but I’m more interested in news,” the president said. “And the best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.”
Fellow Californians:
- No to recall – if only on principle for how much this whole thing is going to cost, but also because you don’t want Arnold in office (oh, and the car tax thing? Pete Wilson signed that in)
- I voted Camejo. It’s not a horse race (but if it were, you’d probably want to vote for Bustamante (he’s also the plaintiff in the Enron case; which does win some points as far as the respect thing goes at least))
- No to Prop 53 – makes it harder to balance the budget, contractor back scratching
- No to Prop 54 – despite what it would sound like, will lead to more discrimination
School District Sued over WLAN Planning – hmm. Sometimes I get bothered by the amount of microwave radiation bombarding my body. But mostly I’m apathetic about it (way more is coming from my cell phone than from APs anyway). An interesting discussion… See also:
Ahoy: Everything Can be a Link with Mozilla’s window.getSelection() Method and the W3C DOM Range API – Brian Donovan wrote a JS script that allows dynamic (user-drivent) text-fragment bookmarking via getSelection() and DOM ranging.
Matt W has been posting a lot of interesting stuff on his blog recently. On the “to read after I finish these deadlines” list…
If you’re a fan of Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, etc, give Explosions in the Sky a try. It looks like their going to be in town in December.